Hometown favorite coach Brian O'Connor added another College World Series memory to his rsum Monday when Virginia defeated second-seeded Cal State Fullerton 7-5 in an elimination game to give the Cavaliers their first CWS win in history.

Schoolchildren crowd into the barracks of this former immigration station, poring over poems of sadness and longing carved into the walls by the million-plus immigrants who passed through the "Ellis Island of the West" decades ago.

The powerful Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences lived up to their hype by sending four teams each to the super regionals of the NCAA tournament. The surprise came from Conference USA, which sent all three of its tournament entries on to the second round.

Retail sales posted their first monthly decline this year in March as purchases declined at a wide range of stores, the government said Tuesday in a report that suggested consumers biggest contributors to the economy are still wary because of sharp declines in employment.

Announcements about who would be in charge of President Obama's economic strategy at first sparked powerful stock rallies on optimism a new direction would help snap the economy out of its slump and boost confidence in banks. However, details of the stimulus and bank bailout didn't live up to Wall Street's lofty expectations. The result: Sell-offs have left stocks near bear market lows.

Reporters from all over the map have camped outside her doorstep and surrounded the hospital where she gave birth to eight healthy babies last week, but people still don't know much about Nadya Suleman. That's about to change.

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.